2017–18 CD Travadores season

CD Travadores

2017–18 season
Chairman	Armindo Oliveira
Manager	Tazinho
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago South Premier Division	9th place
Santiago South Cup	Finalist
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The 2017–18 CD Travadores season were in the island division of football (soccer).^[1]

Santiago South Premier Division

Travadores started off fourth as they defeated AD Ribeira Grande 1-2 in their next challenge with that club in a couple of seasons, their last was in 2012. Currently in the season, Travadores was 11th place as of the 4th round of championship competition. Their positions made it roughly the same as they were last season, moderate. Travadores had a three match losing streak, followed by a two match winning streak with their last over Bairro where they scored their first home goal (next in five matches), then another three match losing streak with the last one a 1-0 loss to the unpowerful club Tira Chapéu which was Travadores' first ever match with that club and was eight for a few rounds. At the end of 2017, Travadores had just nine points. Their recent matches were a single goal draw, first with Benfica one of the Premier Division's weakest in history, then with the same result with Santiago South's strongest club Sporting. Travadores now has 11 points and got the seventh position from Tchadense. Travadores had an unheard defeat to a lesser known club AD Ribeira Grande from the west in the south of the island, they lost at home 0-2 but both clubs played at the stadium and lost a position to 9th place which Travadores became a crumbling club, also it was their downturn from their earlier successes up to 2014. A small relief was done as they made a goal draw with Académica on January 28 and was still 9th as the club was never inside the relegation zone. Travadores suffered with a huge 0-6 loss to Boavista on February 3 and conceded more than 25 goals. In their positions, Benfica Praia's, Tira Chapéu's and Eugênio Lima's losses (the last three positions) had kept their relief from relegation for Travadores and remains to be 9th place. A round later, Travadores suffered a nine match winless streak and suffered another loss, this time to Desportivo, the club remained 9th, Benfica's loss still had point more, Travadores had a two-point difference over 11th placed Tira Chapéu due to their win, Travadores remains to be relieved from relegation. Travadores continued to suffer another loss which was their third straight and their tenth match winless streak, they lost to last placed Eugénio Lima 1-2 on February 16, Benfica's loss to Academica and Tira Chapéu's loss to Bairro kept Travadores continuing to be relieved from relegation. Travadores finally made another win in the next ten matches, they defeated Bairro 1-2 in their revenge on being in the lower positions and had 15 points and remains 9th, Travadores further escaped from the relegation zone. This continued with another win as they defeated Tchadense 2-1 on March 3 and had 18 points, five more than their co-affiliate Benfica. It etched a but as Travadores suffered another loss, it was to Celtic (once rarely heard) on March 10, they have 16 goals, the third fewest and conceded 36 goals, the third worst in Santiago South. Travadores performed a miracle as they made a win with a surprising result of 6-0 which became the club's highest in several seasons and also throwing out that club into the Second Division next season. Along with Ribeira Grande, Travadores fully escaped the relegation zone as Travadores had 21 points and 22 goals scored. Travadores lost to their affiliate Benfica Praia 1-2, it was their club's back to back, they remained ninth, also it was their last loss for the seasom, Their final challenge was with Sporting, surprisingly Travadores defeated Sporting 1-2 in their rivalry and finished with 24 points and 25 goals scored, unexpectedly only five were home goals. This was a pretext that Travadores may try in the upcoming cup final.

Santiago South Cup

Travadores started off the regional cup competition at the second round and defeated Vila Nova 2-0 on January 3, 2018. Their next challenge will be February 7 (rescheduled from January 24), a quarterfinal match with Vitória, overall their next challenge with that club as that club is again a Second Division club. Travadores defeated Vitória and proceeded to the semis to meet Celtic on March 13. Travadores surprisingly defeated the club who was developing to become the top five clubs of Southern Santiago today. Travadores headed to the finals and met Sporting Praia on March 21, they lost the match 2-1 and the title to Sporting. Also lost was Travadores' super cup qualification.

Squad statistics

As of 30 April 2017^[2]

No.	Pos.	Name	Regional
			Goals
-	-	Claudino Évora Almeida
-	-	Carlos Andrade
-	-	Kadú Barreto
-	-	Jorge Alexandre Cardoso
-	-	Celso' Mendes
-	-	Bruno Miguel Correia
-	DF	Djimmy (Admar de Jesus Lopes)
-	-	Edmilson Varela
-	-	Eusébio Tavares
-	DF	João Paulo Ferreira
-	-	Genilson Silva Gonçalves
-	-	Fortunato Gonçalves
-	-	Ildemar Gomes
-	-	Ivandro Correia
-	-	Ivandro Pereira Cabral
-	-	Keven Alves
-	-	Adilson Lopes
-	-	Ivan Bruno Lopes
-	-	Euclides Mascarenhas
-	-	José Carlos Mendes
-	-	Lucas Cabral Mendes
-	-	Carlos Alberto Moreno
-	-	Paulo Ricardo Natividade
-	-	Gbemisola Ogundele
-	MF	Chibike Okoronkwo
-	-	José Pereira
-	-	Clarimundo Stevon P. Mendes
-	-	Nilton Cesar Paiva Tavares
-	FW	Fufuco (António Paiva Tavares)
-	-	Walter António Fernandes

Club

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager and head coach	Tazinho

Last updated: November 2016
Source: http://www.scp.cv

Other information

As of 2016

Chairman	Armindo Oliveira
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Estádio da Várzea (8,000 / 108x69 m)

Last updated: November 2016
Source:

Team kit

Its uniform colors has red clothing for home games, the shirt has two dark thick red stripes in the sleeves with thin white stripes and has thin white rim on its shorts and blue stripes on its socks. Its away uniform is with the clothing white and the stripes red, it does not have the thick stripes as the home uniform does, on the socks, it has the same blue stripes. Its third colour uniform is blue with red thin stripes on its sleeves, shorts and socks and has a dark blue red wide stripes in the middle and the back of the shirt. Its shirts are currently supplied by Adidas.

Home

Away/Alternate

Third colours

Source:

References

External links

• Travadores' 2017-18 squad at Konkuri
• Travadores at Sports Mídia (in Portuguese), includes the squad section